126 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY—FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
Valley and the Euchee Valley, and other broken lands which border 
the plateau. The considerable height at which the plateau lies 
above the river has resulted in the land being more hilly than else¬ 
where in Florida. The native growth is the short leaf pine, with 
some hardwood and other trees. 
The plateau section which lies back from the river is an area 
of long leaf pine. Little River flows through the county and along 
this stream and its tributaries is developed short leaf pine hammock 
lands with red clay soils. 
The soils of Gadsden county range from heavy red to yellowish 
sandy clays, supporting a growth of hardwood timber and short 
leaf pine, to light sandy soils with a clay sub-soil supporting prin¬ 
cipally a growth of long leaf pine. The red soils are found chiefly 
on the slopes to the streams. The sandy soils often with clay sub 
soils occupy the level plateaus. A soil survey of this county was 
made by the U. S. Bureau of Soils in 1904 from which a more de¬ 
tailed account of the soils may be obtained. 
ELEVATIONS. 
The following elevations in this county are taken from the 
records of the Seaboard Air Line Railway which crosses the county 
from north-west to south-east, and from the profile of the Apala¬ 
chicola Northern Railroad which traverses the western border of 
the county from north to south. The elevation at Ocklocknee, a 
station on the Seaboard Air Line Railway on the Ocklocknee River, 
is 133 feet. At Midway about 4 miles west of Ocklocknee the ele¬ 
vation rises to 201 feet and at Quincy, some 12 miles west of Mid¬ 
way, to 251 feet above sea. This increase in elevation on going west¬ 
ward continues until Mount Pleasant is reached. Gretna is re¬ 
corded as 294 feet and Mount Pleasant which is about 9 miles west 
of Quincy is 301 feet above sea. This is the highest point recorded 
by the Seaboard Air Line Railway in this county. Westward to 
the Apalachicola River the elevation gradually decreases, River 
Junction being recorded as 82 feet above sea. 
Along the Apalachicola Northern Railroad the following ele¬ 
vations are given: River Junction at the junction with the Atlantic 
Coast Line Railroad 76 feet; Hardaway 304 feet; Greensboro 280 
feet; Juniper 254 feet; Sedalia 218 feet. As shown by this profile 
Hardaway is the highest recorded point in the State, exceeding 
Mount Pleasant by 3 feet. 
